40.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
Bald Nob · Suburb / Locality
Long-term health conditions and the need for help with everyday activities.
Forty per cent of people in Bald Nob live with a long-term health condition, a figure far above the national average. This is a sparsely populated area where health challenges are more common than in most other similar places.
Long-term conditions people report.
About 40% of residents have a long-term health condition, which is far above the New South Wales figure of 27%. Arthritis is the most common issue at 20%, while no one reported a mental health condition, which is well below the national figure of 8.8%.
40.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with one or more selected long-term health conditions.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people reporting a long-term mental health condition (incl. depression or anxiety).
In Bald Nob, None is the majority at 67%; One condition is next at 33%.
People needing help with daily activities.
Need for help with daily activities is among the highest for similar areas. At 15%, this is well above both the state and national figures of 5.8%.
15.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people with a core-activity need for assistance due to disability or age.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Health & Disability in Bald Nob [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10149/bald-nob/topic/health-disability